Reaching out for more edge customers, Amazon expands Outposts globally

The new regions and their Outposts designations are:

• Central Canada (ca-central-1)
• London (eu-west-2)
• Paris (eu-west-3)
• Stockholm (eu-north-1)
• Bahrain (me-south-1)
• Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (ap-east-1)
• Singapore (ap-southeast-1)

They join four regions in the United States as well as others in Germany, Australia, Japan, South Korea, and Ireland.

The Outposts fully managed service exists for the same reason that edge computing has come to be important to company data centers. Some situations demand cloud use, but not all.

Cloud resources are vast, powerful and comparatively safe, able to perform complex analyses on giant databases for a subscription price that is orders of magnitude less expensive than the cost for businesses to create the infrastructure themselves.

But being distant, cloud servers cannot always return results as fast or as securely as can local systems.

Edge computing fills that niche, only tapping cloud resources – sold by any cloud vendor – when needed.

Amazon executives want to capture as much of that business as possible and to give customers as few reasons as possible to buy vendor-agnostic edge systems.

Outposts’ integrated hardware and software are physically booted up in a company’s data center or co-location site to handle work requiring lower latency than typically can be delivered using the cloud.

Outposts systems run the same compute, storage and networking application program interfaces used in the public AWS cloud.

Support for Amazon EC2, EBC, ECS, EKS, EMR, and VPC is available for Outposts, and comes in native AWS and VMware Cloud on AWS flavors. This way, customers get the same cloud experience that has become a de-facto industry standard through AWS.

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